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Watch The New 'Cyberpunk 2077' Teaser Trailer From CD Projekt RED

Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt RED has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming sci-fi RPG ‘Cyberpunk 2077.’

We’ve been told that this trailer is hideously sexist, but I’m not so sure. It’s a teaser so we don’t have much context, other than what appears to be a mass murder at the “hands” of a scantily-clad cyborg. Why the murder has taken place, whether the police are good or bad…it’s all left to conjecture.

An attractive woman (or robot, as it were) with not a great deal of clothing on is not in and of itself sexist. It may not be particularly original (though again, without much to go on, who knows?) but it’s not sexist, anymore than a six-pack boasting, shirtless he-man is necessarily sexist.

But who cares about that? I’m just super excited to see anything related to this game. Cyberpunk 2077 is a wonderful looking change of pace for The Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt RED. We need more good sci-fi RPGs.

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John, I think things can be unintentionally sexist, absolutely. For a long time I think that things were probably always sexist without anyone ever really understanding or even being aware of what sexism was. That being said, things can also be intentionally *not* sexist and still be misinterpreted as such. Intent, however, is merely one side of the equation. Such is art.

Actually, something that can be critiqued as sexist in this video is the fact that it is a male law-enforcement officer pulling the trigger on the female. It’s too easy to sit there and see a sexualised female image (because you’re a male used to seeing females sexualised) and accuse that as sexist. Try looking at the surroundings – what do you see? I see a male in the dominant position, and that is sexist! I would have much rather seen a female law-enforcement officer pulling the trigger, simply because I’ve become too used to seeing males in that position.

1. “One person is always in a dominant position, and just because it is the male does not make it sexist.” I 100% agree with this, and for the record I don’t find this trailer sexist at all, but I do still think there is a critique that allows for my original statement, especially if 100% of the time men are in the dominant position (and yes, I realise that they’re not). To me, that is no different than saying “Women should always be in the kitchen” = “Men should always wield the gun”

The last sexist game(s) i ever played where (ps1) duke nukem and leisure suit larry(pc) and from what i can see Cyberpunk is pretty harmless, but to be honest i thought duke and co where pretty harmless too.

This reminds me of the game “catherine” most poeple thought it was some weird japanese ecchi game but when they finally where ably to play it, most of them realized that its content was mature and well handeled and not sexist at all so even if the teaser looks sexist for some poeple the end result will speak for it self.